The Imperial Examination Blessed Wife in the Palm

Chapter 106

After listening to Lu Weiwei's words, Li Chang understood immediately, "Boss shopkeeper, what my cousin said is true. Is it really Wanji who you are looking for?"

After the words fell, her face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

Wan Ji and Li Ji had been at odds since his grandfather was around. After so many years, the two families accounted for almost half of the spice business in Tianquan County. There are only so many people who pick up spices. In fact, the market is very small and limited.

Over the years, the two companies have naturally faced various overt and secret competitions.

But at least, they are considered to be healthy competition, and the two companies are also chasing after each other in the competition, so they have gradually developed and grown, and they have what they are today.

But I don’t want to, now that Li Chengdong fell down and Li Jicai encountered difficulties, Wanji used shady tricks behind his back to poach Li Ji’s corner. Li'er, don't be afraid that if things are done too badly, it won't be easy to see each other in the future, aren't you afraid that Feng Shui will turn around?
The big shopkeeper knew Wanji's plan very well, and he clearly wanted to "take advantage of your illness and kill you" to crush Li Ji with all his strength, so that the family would be the only one from then on.

He was also ashamed of himself for retreating in front of the battle and forgetting righteousness at the sight of profit. He blushed and said, "Eldest young master, I, I have difficulties, but my old lady is paralyzed in the room. If you don't believe me, you can go and see. There are still four in my family. We have two children to support. Our family was poor back then, and my wife was more tired than me all the time, and she hurt her body. It was not until we were married for the seventh year that I finally had a body. So the oldest of my four children is only 12 years old. , The whole family really depends on me.”

"Young master, I don't want to defend myself, but the reality is in front of me. The whole family needs to eat and drink. How could I not think about it? It just so happened that they found me and promised me. I, I... I'm sorry, sir. If you want to scold, young master, you can scold me. It’s all my fault, but please forgive me. I really can’t stay. I’m going to tide over the difficulties with the store. I’m ashamed to go to the store again, see the people in the store again, let alone see the boss again , so from today onwards, I will not step into the store again, please go back and tell the owner, the young master, that I am sorry for him!"

Li Chang was already trembling with anger, "Aren't you going to justify yourself? How can you justify yourself! What's wrong with you? That's not the reason for you to forget righteousness when you see profit, and it can't change your forgetfulness when you see profit. The fact of righteousness! You villain, my grandfather really gave you opportunities for nothing, cultivated you for nothing, and my father has treated you for nothing all these years!"

Lu Weiwei didn't feel any better, and said with a sneer, "So the big shopkeeper still remembers that his family was poor? I thought you forgot, just think that the house you live in now, the good life you live in is from the sky, not Because my grandfather gave you a chance back then, and my uncle devoted himself to cultivating you and making you a big shopkeeper, that's why you are here!"

Although Wanji is not kind, what is even more abominable is that the big shopkeeper knows everything, and he still wants to see the profit and forget his righteousness, and turns his back on the battlefield.

Originally, it was difficult for the store now, but as the person who knew the situation in the store best, he joined the enemy, and when the enemy knew himself and the enemy, wouldn't they have a crushing defeat?
The big shopkeeper made the two of them become angry from embarrassment, "It is true that the old boss kept me and cultivated me, but I have also worked hard for the store for so many years. I have no credit and hard work. What do you want me to do?" ? I asked myself, these years, I am worthy of my old boss and my boss, and worthy of the store!"

Standing up while speaking, "Now I have made everything clear. I will not keep the young master and the young master. Please please. Our family is small and the place is remote. Please don't be too expensive. Bitch, don't come here again, and I won't change my mind if I do it a hundred times, please—"

Li Chang was about to explode, so he couldn't hold it any longer, so he said: "I will write down what happened today, and it's fine if you don't ask for my name in the future, otherwise, I will definitely let you do it for today." The choice you made, regret it!"

Then he walked away.

The rest of Lu Weiwei thought about it, and didn't want to talk nonsense with the big shopkeeper, so she couldn't help it, so she said: "Don't bully the young and poor, everyone has to pay the price for their own choices. I hope that when that day comes, Master shopkeeper, don't regret it, let alone ask for mercy!"

Then he strode after Li Chang.

The two brothers went to the street one after the other, and walked a long way in anger. Lu Weiwei pulled Li Chang to persuade him again, "Cousin, it is useless for you to be angry now, you should think about it." What to do next is serious. This is the street, people come and go, you look like a smoke, others think something is wrong. If someone you know sees it, maybe they will laugh at us secretly, secretly Why bother to take pleasure in others' misfortunes?"

Li Changcai finally calmed down, and said with a dark face, "What else can I do? I don't have any money, no goods, and people have to leave. What else can I do except wait for the collapse and closure? Cousin, go drink with me." , I can forget about these crap things when I'm drunk, at least I can be clean temporarily."

Lu Weiwei sneered, "What about after waking up? After waking up, these things will be automatically resolved, so you can be really clean?"

Li Chang gritted his teeth, "At least it can be clean for a while!...It's alright, cousin, don't talk about it, I'm just talking about it, I won't really do it, my father is still sick, and the store and the family rely on it." I support it, and I won’t and dare not be willful.”

After a pause, "I plan to scrape together a sum of money as soon as possible, go to Fucheng personally, bring back a batch of good goods, and bring back all the customers who have lost these days. Otherwise, there will be fewer and fewer customers. How long can it last? We have to let everyone know that we, Li Ji, still have the confidence to pass this test, otherwise we won’t need outsiders to beat us, and we will collapse internally first.”

Lu Weiwei also knew in her heart that it was the best way at the moment to collect money and go to Fucheng to buy goods and come back. Just relying on a small amount of transfer and replenishment around the surroundings, regardless of people's faces, it would cost more money, even if the money given out at one time was not enough. There are many, and it is impossible to count them together.

Yin pondered and said: "Then let's pool the money first. I actually thought about asking Xie Lingzhao to borrow it before. The big deal is that we will calculate the interest for him according to the market price. It's just that something happened to my uncle, and my cousin never went. You don’t know anything about buying goods in Fucheng, I’m afraid that your uncle and aunt won’t agree with you to go; after you go, you may not be able to get things done as expected, you have to think about all aspects first.”

Li Chang said in a deep voice: "This is a big deal. If Dad knows, he will definitely agree to my going. If Dad agrees, Mother will naturally agree. This time Dad was purely accidental. Why didn't I meet him before? I can't." Don't eat because of choking? But once you tell Dad about it, Dad will definitely know the current crisis in the store, and I really don't want him to make trouble."

Lu Weiwei said: "If this goes on like this, uncle will know sooner or later. Let me tell uncle with you later. Uncle has never experienced anything. Although he will definitely be troubled, he won't be unbearable. When we borrow the money, everything will be settled. Everything is ready, just wait for you to leave, and then tell uncle. Cousin, you can prepare other things, and let me borrow the money, and I will tell Xie Lingzhao."

Li Chang frowned, "At least I have to borrow four or five hundred taels of silver. I have to write an IOU and find someone to witness it. This silver may not be a big deal to Ah Zhao, but it is indeed not a small amount. It's his business to care about it, but we have to do everything we need to do, let's borrow it together so that I can write the IOU and put my fingerprint on it. It's also fortunate that we have A Zhao's backing now, otherwise we may have to sell the land."

"That's right. No matter how rich Xie Lingzhao is, we should still write an IOU. Then I'll talk to him first, and then my cousin will go with me. If the land is sold, my cousin will just talk to me right now, but You can’t tell your uncle and aunt, it’s so easy to put it down every year, if you dare to sell it, be careful if uncle discounts your legs.”

"I know, I won't say it. Hey, I have wanted to go to Fucheng for a long time, but I didn't expect that I could finally go, but it was not because of studying abroad, nor because of going to the government exam, but because of this. But I can go to see It's good to have a moment. There is always a first time in everything. Dad also had the first time to go to Fucheng, and only the second and third time. When I go next time, I will definitely be more calm. Cousin, don't You are frowning, it’s not what you said, the more we have to laugh at this time, the more we have to stop our back..."

The two cousins ​​were talking, thinking that sooner or later the news of the shopkeeper's "surrender to the enemy" would reach the shop.

Instead of letting everyone hear the rumors and make people more and more panicked, it is better to tell them now and make a promise. If there are still people who want to leave after the reassurance and promise, then it is up to them to keep people. What's the use?

Now the inside of the store can't stand the toss, even if there are only two or three people left in the end, it's not much more expensive than the rest, who are all crying, who are in Cao Ying and their hearts are in Han!

Fortunately, when I went to the store to talk about the situation, Chen San was the first to say that he would never leave. With his leadership, except for one helper, everyone else also said that they would not leave, and they will definitely stick to the last moment,' Only then can the host treat us so well! '

Li Chang and Lu Weiwei felt better.

It was also mentioned that Chen San would be the shopkeeper temporarily, and everyone discussed the matter of going back to Fucheng to buy goods. They were busy until the sun went down, and the two brothers returned home exhausted.

Just in time, I saw Aunt Li and Mrs. Li took a funeral bag, and each held some eggs, melons and vegetables in their hands, as if they were about to go out.

Lu Weiwei hurriedly said: "Mother, aunt, where are you going? Is there any white matter at home?"

Seeing that both of them were sweating, Mrs. Li said, "You guys go into the house to wash up, and take a rest for a while, seeing how hot it is. It's Uncle Lin next door to you. The whole family lived in Fucheng before. Who would have thought that the only son died of illness suddenly, and the old couple would go crazy, but no matter how crazy they are, they have to be sent back to the ground for peace, right? We arrived at the house this afternoon, and now the family knows everything that should be known, and we I have to go and have a look, if you can give me a hand, give me a hand, right?"

After all these years, Lu Weiwei couldn't sort out these relatives.

It was Li Changdao: "Is it Uncle Cheng Lin who has been living in Fucheng after being selected as a scholar in the clan? It seems that he got married late, and his son is younger than me. Why did he suddenly disappear?"

Aunt Li said: "The child is younger than you, and he is not in good health when he is a child. Their family moved to Fucheng, thinking that the winter in Fucheng will be warmer, and it will be more convenient to see the doctor to prescribe medicine. Who knows... it is really pitiful." of."

Mrs. Li then sighed, "Yeah, it's like cutting out the heart of being a parent. I would rather lose myself, and hope that the child will be fine..."

The two mothers sighed for a while, and then hurried to the home of the scholar of the same clan.

Lu Weiwei and Li Chang went back to their rooms to wash and cool off.

It wasn't until it was dark that Mrs. Li and Aunt Li returned home, their eyes were still red, "Sister-in-law Lin was crying so badly, and she was also frighteningly thin, she said that if she hadn't thought about the child's death, she would still be alive." If it didn’t work out, she went with her.”

"I don't care about Brother Lin at all, I hate Brother Lin so much, saying that it's because Brother Lin pushed the child too hard, and insisted that he study and improve, so he drove the child to death. Brother Lin is the same, he doesn't study Is it too late for the school exam? I have to pin all my unfulfilled hopes on the child. The child is already a child at a young age. What else is there? I have to force me to study every day, saying that I must be 25 years old at the latest Master Zhongjuren... Hey, it's over now, it's too late to regret it."

"They are all in their early forties, and it is impossible to reproduce... When we went, Mrs. Gen San was there, and she cried with her. On the way back, she sighed with us. To put it bluntly, man If there is something good or bad, like their family, although the third brother Gen is disabled, as long as the whole family is united, they can still survive. But if there is something wrong with the child, there is really no hope, and no matter what..."

It made the whole family feel uncomfortable, and Li Chengdong also sighed once, saying that he will get better after a few days, "Go and comfort Brother Lin and Sister Lin too."

Lu Weiwei and Li Chang couldn't tell him about the situation in the store and the purchase of goods in Fucheng. Anyway, they were not in a hurry for a few days, so they didn't say anything. The family went back to their rooms after dinner. , Turned off the lights and fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)